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198599596<p>New York 1985. 1985. Fine. - Sixteen words penned on a 3 inch high by 5 inch wide card inviting Jean Dalrymple to come to the dinner and performance of the musical "Lady Liberty" "Theatre World is Special. I do hope you can come." Signed by the American theatre film television and radio actress Beatrice Straight. Together with the original 9 inch high by 5-1/4 inch wide four-page program printed on heavy stock and illustrated in color on the front. The original ticket order form and envelope is laid in. Fine in the original mailing envelope.</p><p>The American theatre film television and radio actress Beatrice Straight 1914-2001 was a member of the prominent Whitney family. She made her Broadway debut in "The Posessed" and played Viola in "Twelfth Night" Lady Macduff in "Macbeth" and Elizabeth Proctor in "The Crucible" for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role in "Network" which at 5 minutes and 2 seconds of screen time is noteworthy as the shortest ever to win. Other movie roles included that of Mother Christophe in "The Nuns Story" and Dr. Martha Lesh in "Poltergeist".</p><p>The recipient Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Carey Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jos Iturbi Andre Kostalanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world.</p> New York, 1985.
1980KOS01203775Nimaisha 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. KOS01203775 Nimaisha paperback
68-4303Paris France: Theatre du Palais Royal. ca. 1946. 9 x 14 cm. B&W glossy photograph. Very Good.Provenance Paul Paulet French actor from the 1930s-1970s [Paris, France: Theatre du Palais Royal., ca. 1946?] unknown
68-6379Paris France: Theatre Montmarte ca. 1890. B&W Photograph on Blank Post Card. 14 x 9 cm. Very Good. En Francais.Provenance:Colette Monceau born Nancey 1921-2016. Biographical note: born in Nice in 1921 Colette Monceau was a student of Charles Dullin in the second half of the forties and played in several plays during the same period. At the end of the 1950s she took courses at Pierre Foix's school of graphology in Paris and worked in particular on dance as part of the exam for the Group of Consulting Graphologists of France. Having become a consultant graphologist she also teaches this technique. Particularly interested in the writings of Louis Jouvet and Sarah Bernhardt she wrote three works that remained unpublished as well as several articles. It constitutes a thousand files devoted to actors and actresses as well as personalities from varied backgrounds. Colette Monceau née Nancey 1921-2016. Notice biographique : née à Nice en 1921 Colette Monceau est élève de Charles Dullin dans la seconde moitié des années quarante et joue dans plusieurs pièces à cette même période. À la fin des années cinquante elle suit les cours de l’école de graphologie de Pierre Foix à Paris et travaille notamment sur la danse dans le cadre de l'examen du Groupement des graphologues conseils de France. Devenue graphologue-conseil elle enseigne également cette technique. S'intéressant notamment aux écritures de Louis Jouvet et de Sarah Bernhardt elle rédige trois ouvrages restés inédits ainsi que plusieurs articlesExpertise by Daniel BRUKARZ Expert auprès de la CEA. Paris. Paris, France: Theatre Montmarte, [ca. 1890]. unknown
21974Very Good. Classic Palace Theatre Vaudeville Program with Archie Gunn Cover<br /> <br /> A period program from B.F. Keith's Palace Theatre the premier vaudeville house in America documenting the height of New York's live entertainment culture between the wars. Programs from the Palace capture the transition moment between vaudeville dominance and the rise of Broadway and film.<br /> <br /> Illustrated throughout with performer portraits theatrical advertisements and contemporary fashion promotions the program offers a vivid cross-section of stage entertainment and commercial culture. <br /> Featured performers include Leonora Hughes and Mary Haynes alongside theatrical promotions for productions such as The Firebrand and The Guardsman with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. <br /> Advertisements from Bonwit Teller Milgrim and other luxury retailers reinforce the close connection between theatre fashion and urban sophistication.<br /> <br /> PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION<br /> Stapled pictorial wraps.<br /> Format: Theatre program.<br /> Size: 5.5 by 7.75 inches.<br /> Pagination: 32 pages.<br /> Illustrations: Photographic plates and period advertising throughout.<br /> Cover: Illustrated by Archie Gunn.<br /> Imprint:New York: B.F. Keith's Palace Theatre circa late 1920s-early 1930s.<br /> <br /> CONDITION: Bindings are secure. Text is clean; light even age-toning. Moderate handling wear; light soiling to wraps. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -<br /> This program reflects the final flourishing of vaudeville at the Palace Theatre before its decline in the 1930s. It captures a moment when live performance fashion and consumer culture intersected in New York's entertainment capital.<br /> <br /> The Palace Theatre stood at the center of American vaudeville and its programs functioned as both souvenir and cultural document. This example reflects the layered experience of the era: performance fashion advertising and social aspiration all contained within a compact format. The inclusion of national advertisers and Broadway promotions underscores how the Palace served as a bridge between touring acts and New York's theatrical establishment.<br /> <br /> Archie Gunn 1863-1930 was a prominent American illustrator associated with Life magazine and known for his elegant depictions of fashionable women. His work helped define the visual language of early 20th-century American illustration. Cover with his 'signiture'.<br /> <br /> SUBJECTS: Vaudeville programs Palace Theatre New York Broadway history Archie Gunn illustration theatrical advertising 1920s entertainment culture fashion advertising ephemera Theatre Ephemera Performing Arts Illustrated Ephemera unknown
192220966751922. New York: Select Printing Company. Ltd. nd 1922. 4to. Original colour paper wrappers with cover design by Soudeikine; pp 16 with colour illustrations and b&w photos; very good.Promotional programme for the 1922 tour of La Chauve-Souris revue's tour of America. Created my Nikita Balieff this comedy song and dance show was extremely popular in Russia and was brought to Broadway by the producers Morris Gest and F. Ray Comstock. It did 153 performances in New York during this season. This programme features artowrk by the renowned Russian set designers Serge Soudeikine and Nicolai Remisoff. unknown
1925HALL512137Paperback. 1925. 16pp illustrations some in colour 4to card cover Paris 1925. 'A collection of set designs by Sudeikin Benois Remizov Repin & Shukhaev for the 'Chauve-Souris' Company. Front cover portrait of Baliev by Shukhaev worn otherwise good. . paperback
20031-0789308657Universe Pub 2003. Paperback. New. illustrated edition. 224 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.75 inches. Universe Pub paperback
78691950. Grand in/4 en feuilles retenues par un cordon couverture rempliée illustrations en noir et en couleur publicités 20 ff. Maquettes pour ballets de Léonor FINI de CLAVE de LEPRI belles photographies de Renée JENMAIRE future Zizi Jeanmaire Colette MARCHAND Roland PETIT . publicités des studios Harcourt Perrier Daum. Préface de Jean Anouilh. unknown
33426Condizioni buone come da immagini unknown
1978373553New York: The Shubert Organization 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine pamphlet copy; wrappers very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall: tight bright and clean. Physical description; 32 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; New York State New York. Theater programs. Theatre; history. Drama; history. The Beatles; history. The Beatles; Beatlemania. New York: The Shubert Organization paperback
60-02428Gate Theatre. Paperback. New. . Gate Theatre paperback
21043898-nnew. unknown
21043898like new. unknown
1786820803.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1783191252.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
178023923<p>London: John Bell 1780. leather. Good /no dustwrapper. 16mo . frontispiece engravings Collection of five plays being volume 19 in the Bell's British Theatre and vol 10 of the comedies; the plays are please note full title given for Volpone the remainder containing equivalent sub-titling: Volpone or The Fox a Comedy as altered from Ben Jonson and performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden regulated from the Prompt-Book by permission of the Managers by Mr. Wild Prompter; The Country Lasses Charles Johnson The Mistake Sir John Vanbrugh The Gamesters as altered from Shirley and The Lady's Last Stake Colley Cibber; each play with its own title page and facsimile engraving facing frontispiece engraving for Bell's British Theatre total of 6 engravings; all plays dated 1778 with frontispiece engraving dated 1780; period calf boards with new leather spine with black and maroon title labels and gilt titling new endpapers; scattered foxing throughout offset from engravings title pages and text block tanned o.w. Good; boards rubbed/scuffed worn at corners new leather with very mild scuff marks.</p> John Bell hardcover
0714626880.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
24696‘New Theatre Royal Adelphi / Jany 19th 1860’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 12mo. In good condition lightly aged. On a bifolium the blank second leaf of which is laid down on part of a leaf from an album. Folded twice for postage. The recipient is ‘Henry Spicer Esq’ presumably a relation of the artist of the same name d.1804; see ODNB several of whose theatrical portraits are in the Garrick Club collection. Webster has been given ‘infinite pleasure’ by his ‘generous offer’: ‘Be assured the Dramatic College is a most prosperous institution & well deserving your patronage.’ He asks him to ‘call at our offices 15 Bedford Street Covent Garden’ where he will ‘see a full confirmation of what I state’. In a postscript he asks him to allow Webster to ‘announce this extra Godsend this week. The cost does not exceed £250 as per agreement’. ‘New Theatre Royal Adelphi / Jany 19th 1860’. unknown
68042Benvenuto Benvenuti - Almanacco del Teatro Italiano - ed. 1931 - Testo in lingua italiana - Pagine - 429 con illustrazioni - Copertina morbida - Condizioni buone con piccoli segni del tempo alla sovraccoperta unknown
68-6369Dublin Ireland: Abbey Theatre 1896. B&W Photograph on Blank Post Card. 14 x 9 cm. Very Good. En Francais.Provenance:Colette Monceau born Nancey 1921-2016. Biographical note: born in Nice in 1921 Colette Monceau was a student of Charles Dullin in the second half of the forties and played in several plays during the same period. At the end of the 1950s she took courses at Pierre Foix's school of graphology in Paris and worked in particular on dance as part of the exam for the Group of Consulting Graphologists of France. Having become a consultant graphologist she also teaches this technique. Particularly interested in the writings of Louis Jouvet and Sarah Bernhardt she wrote three works that remained unpublished as well as several articles. It constitutes a thousand files devoted to actors and actresses as well as personalities from varied backgrounds. Colette Monceau née Nancey 1921-2016. Notice biographique : née à Nice en 1921 Colette Monceau est élève de Charles Dullin dans la seconde moitié des années quarante et joue dans plusieurs pièces à cette même période. À la fin des années cinquante elle suit les cours de l’école de graphologie de Pierre Foix à Paris et travaille notamment sur la danse dans le cadre de l'examen du Groupement des graphologues conseils de France. Devenue graphologue-conseil elle enseigne également cette technique. S'intéressant notamment aux écritures de Louis Jouvet et de Sarah Bernhardt elle rédige trois ouvrages restés inédits ainsi que plusieurs articlesExpertise by Daniel BRUKARZ Expert auprès de la CEA. Paris. [Dublin, Ireland: Abbey Theatre, 1896] unknown
1970218381970. African AmericanTheatre Black Theatre Production Archive ca. 1970s. Three silver gelatin prints. Each approx. 5 x 7 in. Photographer: Paul Buckholdt Atlanta Georgia. An evocative photographic archive capturing Black stage performance in mid-century Atlanta these three images-Circa 1970s-offer a rare and powerful visual document of regional Black theater. Shot by Atlanta-based photographer Paul Buckholdt the photographs document an ensemble of African American actors engaged in emotionally intense and physically expressive performances. The productions are unidentified but exhibit hallmarks of experimental and socially conscious theater with strong visual affinities to works influenced by the Black Arts Movement and Southern community theater traditions. The photographs appear to be of different productions but share some of the same actors possibly a repertory cast. The first photograph depicts a barefoot actor at center draped in classical robes surrounded by fellow performers in matching garments adopting stylized poses of deference or resistance-suggestive of ritual theater potentially a mythic drama. The second image features a domestic interior: a woman in a plaid dress is caught in a moment of confrontation flanked by two men-one seated behind a wooden chest the other looming behind her-capturing a charged tableau of familial or communal tension. The third image shows a five-man cast in a living room set gathered around a piano and seated furniture the action centered on a standing figure in suspenders gesturing emphatically suggesting a naturalistic setting with underlying political or intergenerational themes. Faint discoloration marks to two prints otherwise clear and well preserved. Overall very good condition. This small but significant archive offers an uncommon glimpse into Black theatrical productions in the American South presenting a visual record of cultural expression identity and resistance staged before predominantly local audiences. unknown
1993037150United Kingdom: Aron Paramor 1993. Poster. Very Good. Advertising poster for three plays by Aron Paramor: The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe The Stratagem by Aleister Crowley and The Diary of a Madman by Guy de Maupassant. Performed 10th-29th August at the White Bear Kennington UK 1993. A3 poster only creased once where folded vg <br/> <br/> Aron Paramor unknown
195062698Buenos Aires 1950. Paperback. Good. Original wrappers. 29cm. Some cover soiling. Lower right corners curling. Contents of almost all issues browned. Spanish text. paperback
1973List2919New York City: George Fenmore Associates 1973. Sixteen page booklet measuring 9 x 12 inches. Some wrinkling some marginal damage overall excellent. The Negro Ensemble Company was opened in 1967 by actor and playwright Douglas Turner Ward actor and producer Robert Hooks and producer Gerald Krone with a grant from the Ford Foundation. It provided free theater training—both in acting and in behind-the-scenes work—to Black people in New York City and put on plays relevant to the community. Notable alumni of the NEC include Angela Bassett Samuel L. Jackson and Giancarlo Esposito among numerous others.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a booklet about the NEC’s production of Joseph A. Walker’s The River Niger which opened in 1972 in the small off-off-Broadway St. Marks Playhouse theater. The play was so popular that it played for weeks longer than planned at St. Marks and then opened on Broadway in 1973. Walker won a Tony for Best Play for The River Niger the first African-American to do so. The booklet includes photographs of the play and an article about it from Ebony magazine alongside photographs from the group’s many other productions. We find two copies of the booklet in OCLC both at the University of California Davis. George Fenmore Associates unknown
